Use iMessage apps on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch

With iMessage apps, you can collaborate with others in a conversation, decorate messages with stickers, share a song, and more — without leaving Messages.

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Find iMessage apps in the app drawer

The app drawer gives you quick access to apps that you can use in your messages. To see your app drawer:

  1. Open Messages.
  2. Tap the Compose buttonCompose a message to start a new message. Or go to an existing conversation.
  3. Swipe left or right over the app drawer to find the app that you want to use.

Here are some apps that are automatically in your app drawer:

Store: Download iMessage apps to use with Messages.

Photos: Quickly add photos to your messages right from the app.

Music: Share recently played songs from Apple Music.

Digital Touch: Use Digital Touch to send sketches, taps, kisses, heartbeats, and more.

#images*: Find hundreds of trending GIFs to add to your messages.

Apple Pay: Send and receive money with Apple Pay.*

iPhone showing how to download iMessage apps

Download iMessage apps

You can find and download apps to use with iMessage in the App Store for iMessage. Here's how:

  1. To go to the App Store for iMessage, tap the Store iconapp store icon.
  2. Tap theget icon icon or the price icon next to the app, then tap Install. You might need to enter your Apple ID password to complete the purchase.
  3. Tap the gray line or the Close button  to return to your message.

After the app downloads, you can find it in your app drawer.

Some apps let you make additional purchases within the app. If you set up Family Sharing, you can use Ask to Buy to help control app downloads and in-app purchases. Learn more about in-app purchases.

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Manage iMessage apps

You can add apps to your Favorites so you have quick access to them in the app drawer. You can also reorder apps in the app drawer, remove the ones you don't want, and more. Here's how:

  1. From the app drawer, swipe left and tap the More buttonmore icon.
  2. Tap Edit in the upper-left corner to do the following:
  3. Tap Done.

iPhone showing how to delete iMessage apps

Delete iMessage apps

Do more with iMessage

Use the App Store on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Apple TV, or computer to download apps.

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